Paula Deen Professions : Chef Born : January 19, 1947 Browse All Authors Top 82 quotes by Paula Deen Cooking has always brought me a happiness that I didn't think was available. I just fire up the stove, and things start to fade away. Paula Deen cooking fire thinking I found that when I went from Albany to Savannah, that I needed to put that white rice away, and I needed to turn that into Savannah red rice because they were big into that sausage, tomato-y, bell pepper-y rice mixture. Paula Deen tomatoes bells white In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you're preparing it for dinner. Don't wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness. Paula Deen morning giving order We are our brothers keeper. Its going to be up to all of us. Paula Deen keepers brother Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener. Paula Deen funny-love real inspirational I have my new food line in the works - I think it's over 200 items. Hopefully I can make a difference; it's delicious food that's just so easy. I think it'll help people enjoy their lives... it's good! Paula Deen differences people thinking I have a lot of secret uses for sour cream, which is the magic ingredient in my mac and cheese. It's an old-timey, Southern version, and the sour cream makes it that much creamier. Oh, it's so good! Paula Deen magic southern secret I love Hershey's chocolate. I feel the same about chocolate as I do about wine. Connoisseurs like dark chocolate and they like nasty wine that doesn't taste good to me. I don't get it! Paula Deen chocolate wine dark I am guilty of buying way too many gadgets - way too many! And though I try to keep things nice and orderly, sometimes I get distracted and stick saucepans where the stockpots should go. Paula Deen gadgets nice trying I loved my own Grandparents with all my heart. I learned important lessons from them about how to treat people, how to cook and how to work.....they showered us kids with love and left the parenting to Momma and Daddy. That's the beauty of being a grandparent - the hard work belongs to someone else. I guess I never really understood the depth of their love for me until I became a grandmother myself... it is unlike any other relationship. Paula Deen hard-work heart kids I can't, myself, determine what offends another person. Paula Deen determine i-can persons The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunchtime and wouldn't set it down until I went to bed. When you calculate how much empty calories and how much sugar I was consuming, it was staggering. So I haven't had a glass of sweet tea in three years. Paula Deen giving-up drinking sweet There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes. Paula Deen four months past I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue. Paula Deen tongue choke cost There's so much going on. I almost never have a moment. Paula Deen moments It's amazing how good getting up and moving makes you feel. Paula Deen deen feels moving I am proud to be a Southerner. Paula Deen southerner proud I am proof that the American dream still exists. Paula Deen deen proof dream I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard. Paula Deen proof alive dream I'm so thankful. God has been so good and generous. Paula Deen generous has-beens Similar Authors Bryant Terry chef Alice Waters chef Auguste Escoffier chef Art Smith chef April Bloomfield chef Anthony Bourdain chef All Authors